She has been accused of giving out-of-turn allotments of plots to her kith and kin, and others for a consideration when she headed the New Okhla Industrial Development Authority or NOIDA, a town on the outskirts of Delhi.

For a party that seeks to profess clean values in public life, and loses no opportunity to have a go at the Congress and other political opponents for their corrupt ways, the move indeed flies in the face of the BJP’s “we-are-clean” public posture.

Neera’s induction into the BJP smacks of the worst form of realpolitik.

She is a Tyagi married to a Yadav (her husband is an ex-bureacrat-turned politician too). And party chief Rajnath Singh, contesting from Ghaziabad, thinks that she will help him get the support of Tyagis who are in sizeable number in the constituency.

After all, when you are the BJP chief and you are contesting a Lok Sabha election for the first time, you can’t afford to lose, can you? Like they say in cricket, in the end it doesn’t matter how the runs come. So what if you keep the company of the corrupt to win an election?

Well, BJP is no better or worse than Congress (or any other party for that matter) in corruption.

They are better in their economic outlook and don’t have socialistic hangover. But, They don’t stand for reforming the bureaucracy any more than Congress. They will abuse CBI just as much as Congress when in Power (Remember the first global case?). They won’t reform police, or the defence contracts. But, they will certainly give a free hand to mobs to go and hit us extra-constitutionally!!!

Congress on the other hand will follow the same old failed policies. They will take support of (or give support to) Leftists and waste another 5 years in not reforming the governance of this country.

This induction supports my view that at present, there is not much difference between BJP and Congress. Only distinguishing point for BJP is that now and then, it comes out of its slumber and mutters about building Ram Temple in Ayodhya.